While I didn’t know much about Fre$H going into this show, he made a good first impression with the way he spit his raps raw with no backing vocals and easily won the crowd over with his showmanship. Pretty soon he’d bring out the opener for the tour, Fre$H (f/k/a Short Dawg), who used to be affiliated with Young Money Entertainment before re-branding and changing his stage name. Joining Ab-Soul on this tour would be Python P holding it down on the turntables, and he’d get the crowd warmed up to start the show by spinning some TDE tracks by Soulo’s fellow Black Hippy members: Jay Rock, Schoolboy Q, and Kendrick Lamar. The intimate setting definitely fit the mood of the new album, as the stage simply had a DJ booth and a microphone, with no visuals to distract listeners from Ab-Soul’s thoughts and lyrics. Compared to past Toronto performances at Budweiser Stage and The Phoenix Concert Theatre, this is probably the smallest venue Ab-Soul has performed at while in the T-Dot, with only a few hundred fans being able to get into this sold-out show. This show at Adelaide Hall would be the very first show of the tour, and Ab-Soul’s first time headlining a concert since 2017. With the fans having a few months to digest the new music, Ab-Soul is set to hit the road on The Intelligent Movement Tour to perform some of these new songs live for the first time. Titled after his government name, Ab-Soul’s latest album is his most personal one yet, as he delivers raw emotion and deep introspection on his mental health while also serving up healthy doses of his wordplay-filled conundrums that he’s been known for over his decade-plus career. The Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) wordsmith returned in late 2022 and shook up a lot of Hip-Hop heads’ best-albums-of-the-year lists with the mid-December release of his fifth studio album, Herbert, and now he’s back on tour for the first time since TDE’s Championship Tour in 2018. For the first time in about six years, Soulo season is back in full effect.
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